The Superior Court for the Settlement of Criminal Cases, through Second Instance Order No. 152, of October 4, 2022, reformed the provisional dismissal order and opened a criminal case for 32 people, in the Lava Jato case.
According to the Second Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime, represented by the superior prosecutor Isis Soto, the 32 people will be brought to trial as alleged perpetrators, they were charged with the crime against economic order in the form of money laundering.
This was achieved thanks to the appeal filed by the Public Ministry against the dismissal of these people, given in the first instance on June 30, 2022.
This investigation began in 2016, due to news reports mentioning the Lava Jato operation in Brazil, money laundering, in which it was linked to a law office in Panama.
The Public Ministry assured that it is prepared to attend the ordinary hearing in this case since it has all the evidence that proves the punishable act and the link of these people with the crime of money laundering and hoped to support the tax hearing.
